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  • ANAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANA

    ANA, or aa, in Medicine, denotes an equal Quantity of any Thing, whether in liquid or dry Measure. See A. Hence Analectica Proportio is used by some Writers to signify the Ratio, or Proportion of Equality. See EQUALITY, RATIO, &c. Ana, in Matters of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Medicine

  • AShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AS

    AS,among Antiquaries, has two different Significations. 1° It signifies a Weight; and in this Sense the Roman As is the same with the Roman Libra; or Pound. See Weight, Libra, Pound, &c. The As had several Divisions.—The principal were, the Uncia, or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ATTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTIC

    ATTIC, Atticus, something relating to Attica, or the city Athens. In matters of philology, we use Attic salt, Sales Attici, for a delicate, poignant kind of wit and humor; peculiar to the Athenian writers: Attic witness, Atticus testis, was a witness...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANNALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNALS

    ANNALS, Annales, a historical Account of the Affairs of a State, digested in order of Years; see YEAR. The difference between Annals and History is variously assigned by various Authors—Some say that History is properly a Recital of Things which the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANNUALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUAL

    ANNUAL, something which returns every Year, or closes at the end of the Year. See YEAR. Thus we say an annual or yearly Feast, Office, Commission, Rent, etc. See ANNIVERSARY. The Annual Motion of the Earth see proved under the article EARTH. Annual is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARCHONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ARCHON

    ARCHON, in antiquity, a chief magistrate of Athens—After the Athenians had abolished monarchy, they created Archons, who were obliged to render an account of their administration. Some of these were annual, and others perpetual; Medon, the son of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chronology

  • ALMONERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMONER

    ALMONER, anciently also wrote Armner, or Aumonier, an Officer in a King’s or Prince’s Household, whose business is to distribute Alms to the Poor. See ALMS.The Lord Almoner, or Lord High Almoner, is an Ecclesiastical Officer, who has the Forfeiture of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANNATEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNATES

    ANNATES, Annates, Annata, the same with Primitiae or First-fruits; so called from the Latin Annus, Year, because the Rate of First-fruits, paid for spiritual Livings, is after the Value of one Year's Purchase. See PRIMITIAE and FIRST-FRUITS. Annates...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AMMONIAChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMMONIAC

    AMMONIAC.—Gum Ammoniac; or, as it is sometimes, tho improperly, called, Armmoniac, is a kind of Gum, brought from the East Indies; supposed to ooze from an umbelliferous Plant. See GUM. It ought to be in dry Drops, white within, yellowish without,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALEMBICKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALEMBICK

    ALEMBICK, or Limbeck, a Chemical Vessel, consisting of a Matrass, fitted with a roundish Head, perforated in a sloping Tube, for the condensed Vapours to pass through in Distillation. See CUCURBIT, and DISTILLATION.Alembic is popularly understood of the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AMOMODUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMOMODUM

    AMOMODUM, a Medicinal Fruit, called also Amomum Racemosum, Amomum Verum, and Elaterii Pontum. It resembles the Muscat Grape; and grows, like it, in Clusters; is about the bigness of a Chick-Pea, round, membranous, and divided into three Cells, which...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALLODIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLODIUM

    ALLODIUM, Allodii, Allodus, or Alluen, Land held of a Man’s own Right. —Hollandus explains Allodium to be "Predium, seu quaevis possessio libera jurisque proprii & non in Feudum Cliente lari onere accepta." See ALLODII. After the Conquest of the Gauls,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALMANACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMANACK

    ALMANACK, or Ephemeris, a Calendar or Table, wherein are set down the Days, and Feasts of the Year, the Course of the Moon, &c. See CALENDAR, YEAR, DAY, MONTH, MOON, &c. The Original of the Word is much controverted among Grammarians.—Some derive it...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANGELICAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGELICA

    ANGELICA, called also ARCHANGELICA, and Radix Angelica, a medicinal Plant, thus named, on account of its great Virtue as an Alexipharmic or Counterpoison. See ALEXIPHARMIC. It is of a sweet Smell, and aromatic Taste; and is loaded with a highly exalted...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AMPLITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMPLITUDE

    AMPLITUDE of the Range of a Projectile, is the horizontal Line subtending the Path in which it moved. See PROJECTILE. Amplitude, in Astronomy, an Arch of the Horizon, intercepted between the true East or West Point thereof, and the Centre of the Sun, or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ABJURATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABJURATION

    ABJURATION, a solemn Renunciation, or Recantation of an Error, Heresy, or false Doctrine. See RECANTATION. The Word is form'd of the Latin Abjurare ; which in Cicero, and other Roman Writers, signifies the denying a thing upon Oath. Thus, Abjurare...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Theology

  • ATTACHMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTACHMENT

    ATTACHMENT, by writ, differs from a distress in this, that an attachment does not reach lands, as a distress does; and that a distress. Distress does not touch the body, which an attachment does— Yet the two are frequently confounded together. In the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACHAThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACHAT

    ACHAT, in our Law-French, signifies a contract or bargain. Purveyors were by Act of Parliament 3 & 4 Edw. III. ordained to be henceforth called Achators. See PURVEYORS. ACHAT

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • APOSTROPHEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/APOSTROPHE

    APOSTROPHE, in Rhetoric, a Figure, whereby the Orator, in an extraordinary Commotion, turns his Discourse from the Audience, and directs it to some other Person, or thing. See FIGURE. Thus, Cicero, in his Oration for Milo, addresses himself to the Great...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Rhetoric

  • ARCHITRAVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITRAVE

    ARCHITRAVE, in building, that part of a column,or order of column, which lies immediately upon the capital. See ORDER and CAPITAL. The Architrave is the lowest member of the frieze, andeven of the whole entablature. See FRIEZE and ENTABLATURE. The...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
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